In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction.

Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.